These from the Dwinell Political Report, 3/19/06 :
"Judy Crowley, Rutland (Vermont): Interesting data on schools, lack of students, etc. Are there any numbers, re: how many homeschooled kids there are or a total of private school kids in the State? My guess is that those figures have risen as public school census has dropped. Would love to have you make comment or present this information.
> Editor's Note: A quick Internet search suggests that there were 100,817 public school students, 6,413 public school teachers, and 1540 home schooled kids in 2001-2. In 2004-5 the figures were 98,361 public school students (down 2.4%), 2090 homeschoolers (up 35%), and 6,790 public school teachers (up 5.9%). Go figure."
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"When it came to the Dubai ports issue, the facts never really had a chance, not in this political season. Still, it's hard to imagine a more ignorant, bogus, xenophobic, reckless debate than the one indulged in by both Republicans and Democrats around this question of whether an Arab-owned company might oversee loading and unloading services in some U.S. ports.
"What is so crazy about the Dubai ports issue is that Dubai is precisely the sort of decent, modernizing model we should be trying to nurture in the Arab-Muslim world. Dubaians are building a future based on butter not guns, private property not caprice, services more than oil, and globally competitive companies, not terror networks. Dubai is about nurturing Arab dignity through success, not suicide.
"So whatever happens with the Iraq experiment but especially if it fails we need Dubai to succeed. Dubai is where we should want the Arab world to go. Unfortunately, we just told Dubai to go to hell." --Thomas Friedman, New York Times, March 15, 2006
About the ports issue, my sentiments exactly!
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